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RV Trip To California: Part 1 - Kum & Go
Some of you have been asking about the cross country trip with my ex-husband. This is the first installment. It was a long trip.
Packing up on Friday was 12+ hours of hell. Not only did I pack up and clean up the house, but then packed the RV. Thank God for Mike & Janet - and Joe Jackson's motley crew from United Van Lines. I was exhausted, and we left Chelsea Michigan at 10:30 p.m. Amazingly, tempers did not flare up - Mike was awesome. (He seemed to approach the trip as a kind of personal development opportunity - whereas my lack of temper was mostly due to numbness). Potential crisis was that my luggage flew out of a storage compartment at the first turn - all my work clothes, etc that I brought along. Fortunately, a fellow motorist gestured to Mike to stop and go back and he found it alongside the road!
As we hit the freeway, I thought I had completely lost my mind. The RV was noisy, the cats were crying, the dogs nervous, and the windows jiggling open and frosting up. How would I do this for 3 days? I tried sleeping in the cabover while he drove, but it felt like I was hurtling through space at a high rate of speed about to die at any moment (reminded me of the freefall in skydiving, which is not conducive for naps). Everyone, including me, eventually settled down. Mike did all the driving that night and we quit at 3 am in Indianapolis, parked in his brother's driveway.
The sleeping accomodations were fairly comfortable for 7 beings in a 30 foot space - the 3 cats had the bedroom with their cages, the 2 dogs had the dinette area, Mike had the cabover area, and I had the pullout couch. We ran the generator at night because it was so friggin' cold (about 17 degrees). Turns out his brother was out of town, so didn't notice this 30 foot noisy behemouth in his driveway.
We woke in the am, hit Bob Evans for a profoundly unhealthy breakfast, and left Indiana as fast as we could. Actually, we tried to get out of Missouri and Oklahoma and Texas pretty quickly too, but it felt like forever. The opening photo (with Nelly in the drivers seat) is from Saturday am in Missouri, where they really love to play on their hillbilly reputation. Kum & Go? OK by me!
10:39 p.m. - 2005-12-26
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